Sunday, May 07, 2006
the winner takes it all
the loser standing small ...
sigh. where people are involved, there's bound to be complications. and that's why i don't like making a clear stand in most stuff. and also why i wouldn't like to enter politics. but ok i'm not going to elaborate on such stuff. i'm just glad to be in my current circumstances and i don't think i could ever ask for more. (: because all i'll ever need is in God.
"whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:14
Taken from Josh Harris' book:
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love."people can argue that love is uncontrollable and governed by feelings. but Jesus went to the cross when every emotion and instinct in His body told Him to turn back. Have you ever read about the night before Jesus' death when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane? (Mark 14:32) He clearly didn't feel like enduring the beatings, hanging on the cross, and enduring God's wrath for sin. But He submitted Himself to His Father's will. Jesus' feelings were not the test of His love, nor were they His master. Jesus' example shows us that love is under our control. He chose to love us, to lay down His life for us.i'm kinda glad God gave me a failed relationship this year, because it really made me see. people try to romanticise everything around them without even understanding the true intensity of love. and then there are weird songs with so much pent up anger and angst. terrible terrible. it's encouraging people not to move on, to live on in a memory. sheesh. why bother to waste your life away like that? it took me so long to see that the greatest love of all was already mine when God sent His son Jesus to die on that cross for me. but I'm glad i managed to realise that in the end.
It caught me by surprise when God ran
The day I left home, I knew I'd broken His heart
I wondered if things would ever be the same
Then one night I remembered His love for me
And down that dusty road, ahead I could see
It was the only time
The only time I ever saw Him run
He ran to me,
Took me in His arms, held my head to His chest
And said "My son's come home again".
Looked in my face, wiped the tears from my eyes
With forgiveness in His voice
He said "Son, do you know I still love you?"
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